Our council-manager form of government combines the civic leadership of elected officials with the managerial experience of an appointed city manager. Beyond all else, we are a service organization, and we are here to serve our community.

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Read more about Mayor Rohan

Susan was elected to a four-year term in November of 2010 and again in 2014, serving as Mayor from 2012-2014 & 2016-2018 and Vice Mayor from 2010-2012 & 2014-2016.

Susan owns a public affairs business, and is the former Vice President of Government and Environmental Affairs for the Del Webb Corporation, which she represented on the Sun City Roseville Homeowners Association Board. She is a native Nebraskan and graduated from the University of Nebraska. She has lived in Roseville since 1988. Susan and her husband, Einar Maisch, have a blended family of three grown children, all Oakmont High grads, and two grandchildren.

Susan was presented the 2014 Woman of the Year Award by the California Legislature for Assembly District 4. She is the 2013 recipient of the Salvation Army Spirit of Caring Award. She is also a recipient of the Roseville Chamber of Commerce Athena Award and the Placer County Economic Development Board Private Sector Business Award. The Alpha Delta Kappa California Delegates also named her Honorary Member of the International Honorary Sorority for Women Educators.

Susan is a member of the Roseville Chamber of Commerce, the Blue Line Arts Board, Soroptimist of Roseville, the Advisory Board for Keaton Raphael Memorial, the Friends of the Roseville Public Library, and the League of Women Voters of Placer County. She chairs the Placer County Community Advisory Board for Sutter Hospital. Being the wife and mother of Sacramento State grads, Susan helps the Alumni Association in Placer County with membership events. She is proud that President Alexander Gonzalez calls her “Honorary Alum.” She is a strong advocate for the Roseville Coalition of Neighborhood Associations and a founding member of the South Placer Women’s Leadership Coalition.

Prior to serving on the Council, Susan was a member of the Roseville Public Utilities Commission from 2007 to 2010. She served on the 2003 City of Roseville Community Standards and Visioning Committee, and was a member of the Placer County Economic Commission from 1999-2005. Susan served on both the Roseville Charter Review and Placer County Charter Review committees in the early 2000s, and she served on the City of Roseville Grants Advisory Commission in its founding year of 1994 through 1999.

Current Council Assignments

Sacramento Area Council of Governments

SACOG Natural Resources and Land Use Committee

Placer County Transportation Planning Agency

Western Regional Waste Management Authority

South Placer Regional Transportation Authority

Regional Water Authority

City County Border Committee

City Selection Committee

Placer County Remote Access Network Advisory Board

Placer County Indian Gaming Local Community Benefit Committee

Placer County Water Agency (PCWA)-Roseville Water Committee

Prior Public Service & Community Involvement

City of Roseville Public Utilities Commissioner, 2007-2010

Salvation Army, South Placer Chapter Advisory Member, 2010

Friends of the Library, 2010

Keaton Raphael Memorial Board Member, 2010

Placer County Economic Development Board Commissioner, 1999-2005

City of Roseville Community Standards and Visioning Committee Member, 2003

Read more about Vice Mayor Gore

Vice Mayor Bonnie Gore was elected to the City Council in November 2012. She won reelection in 2016 and will serve as Vice Mayor until 2018 when she becomes Mayor.

Prior to serving on the council, she was appointed to the Roseville Transportation Commission, the Grants Advisory Commission, the Centennial Committee, and the Roseville Sustainability Committee.

With over 15 years of local public policy and business experience, Bonnie is a member of the Roseville business community, where she manages government and community relations for a local Roseville healthcare and hospital system. She previously served as a District Representative for a local State Senator.

Her roots go deep in the Roseville community, and through the past decade, Bonnie has managed numerous projects which required forging effective working partnerships with community and business organizations, schools, and local government officials throughout the Greater Sacramento Region.

Bonnie graduated from the Roseville Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership Roseville program, and now serves as the chair of it’s steering committee. In 2010, Bonnie received the Chamber’s prestigious “Athena Award” which honors women in South Placer County who make significant, positive impacts in the community.

Bonnie also volunteers her time with Big Brothers Big Sisters and was the founding chair of the Lighthouse Counseling and Family Resource Center. Additionally, she is a Trustee for William Jessup University.

She earned her bachelor’s degree in Business Management from Santa Clara University, and Roseville has been her home for nearly two decades. She and her husband, Rob, have a 16-year-old son, Jacob.

Read more about Tim Herman

Dr. Tim Herman was elected to the City Council in November 2010 and was sworn into office on December 2. At the time of his election Tim was finishing up nearly ten years on the Parks and Recreation Commission. In addition to those duties he was serving on the Youth Sports Coalition and the Sustainability Action Plan Committee.

Tim has been a practicing dentist in Roseville since 1989 and is the managing partner of A+ Personalized Dental Care of Roseville & Lincoln, a family group practice. Tim thanks his very talented partners with allowing him the time to serve the citizens of Roseville as a Councilmember. Herman was named the Roseville Chamber of Commerce’s Business Person of the Year for 2009 and received the Chamber’s President’s award in 2005.

Councilmember Herman has been active in the community in a number of ways: he was the Kaseberg PTA’s representative to the district’s budget advisory committee, he was a member of the Cooley Middle School’s original site council, and represented Roseville High School on the Continuous Improvement Leadership Team (CILT). He has also coached soccer, basketball and been president of the Woodcreek Sea Wolves swim team.

Herman is a native Californian and has made Roseville his family home since 1992. He attended UOP in Stockton, CSU Sacramento, CSU Hayward and received his Bachelor’s and Doctorate of Dental Surgery Degrees from UC San Francisco School of Dentistry in 1988.

Tim resides in Roseville with his wife Pam and daughter Joceline. He loves to water ski, play basketball and if you use our Miner’s Ravine trail you are likely to see Tim training for his next marathon. He is always willing to go for a run and discuss your concerns.

Read more about John Allard

In June 2005, John and his wife, Lisa, purchased Molly Maid of Placer County, a house cleaning business servicing south Placer and north Sacramento Counties. Since taking over Molly Maid, they have grown the business by over 600%, creating numerous new jobs and providing a much-needed service to thousands of local residents.

John and Lisa bought their first house in Roseville in 1987, and have been extremely active and involved in south Placer County since then.

John served on the Roseville Planning Commission from February 2001 to October 2003. He was appointed to the Roseville City Council in October 2003, and elected to four-year terms in November 2004 and November 2008, before terming out of office in December 2012. He was elected to Council again in November 2016.

John’s focus on City Council has been creating a safe, healthy and prosperous community, building the best possible local/regional transportation system, streamlining and reducing the costs of government, enhancing community services, promoting economic vitality, preserving environmental assets and revitalizing the older parts of Roseville.

John served as Regional Vice President for the Hospital Council of Northern and Central California (2000-2005); Vice President of Grassroots and Political Activity for the California Hospital Association (1999-2000); Deputy Director for Public Affairs, Public Education and Legislation for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (1997-1999); and Chief of Staff for Assemblyman and Senator Tim Leslie (1986-1997).

Among his many Council duties are founder and chair of the Placer County Wine Industry Task Force; chair and member of the Placer County Economic Development, South Placer Wastewater Authority and Western Placer Waste Management Authority Boards of Directors and the Roseville Higher Education Task Force and Downtown Revitalization Committee; member of the Highway 65 Interchanges Joint Powers Authority, Placer County Air Pollution Control District, Placer County Transportation Planning Agency and Sacramento Area Council of Governments Boards of Directors and the City of Roseville/Union Pacific Advisory Committee.

He also founded and chaired the annual South Placer County National Day of Prayer Breakfast and served on William Jessup University’s Community Relations Council.

John is a former chair of the Board of Directors of Acres of Hope and Roseville Community Health Foundation; former vice chair of Sutter Health’s Placer County Community Advisory Board; former vice president of Government Relations and member of the Board of Directors of the Roseville Chamber of Commerce; and former member of the Boards of Directors of Blue Line Arts!, The Gathering Inn, Sacramento Valley Lincoln Club and South Placer Transportation Management Association. He currently serves as a member of Sac State’s Placer County Advisory Committee.

John earned his bachelor’s degrees in political science and history from California State University, Sacramento. John and Lisa have been married for thirty years, have three grown children and reside in Roseville. They attend Bayside Church of Roseville.

Read more about Scott Alvord

Scott earned an MBA-MCA degree from Sacramento State University. He also has a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from Pacific Union College in Angwin, CA.

Scott has been voted “Favorite Local Businessperson” and “Favorite Civic Leader” in the Style Magazine’s Readers Choice Awards. He was a 2015 and 2016 finalist in the Gallina’s Business Person of the Year award.

Scott is extremely involved in the local business community, the neighborhoods, and solving homelessness for our county’s homeless population.

In the business community, he previously served for nine years as president of the Downtown Roseville Merchants, is heavily involved in the Fellowship Chamber and other networking groups. He is a popular business speaker, trainer, coach, and author.

In the neighborhoods, he has served on the executive board of the Roseville Coalition of Neighborhood Associations (RCONA), as president of the Westpark Neighborhood Association, and as president of the Pleasant Grove Neighborhood Association. He has helped start new neighborhood associations and provided information, education, and support to help them thrive.

He previously served as the only business representative on the Placer County Homeless Advisory Committee and has since helped form the Placer Rescue Mission, a 501(c)3 charity organization. The PRM is following proven national models to develop a large “housing first” project that could essentially eliminate resident homelessness in Placer County and save the county $8 million per year once it’s completed. While he has deep compassion for the growing problem of homelessness, he is excited over the economic cost savings to our region by properly solving the problem and helping restore many of these lives back into a thriving community.

Scott has been married since 1986 to his college sweetheart, is the father of 7 children (some by birth and some through adoption of relatives), and currently has 8 grandchildren. He raised his family in Roseville, started companies here, and plans to retire here.

Scott is the founder and CEO of Advanced Development Concepts, LLC. ADC is a 30-year business consulting company that helps businesses break through barriers that are holding them back, whether it be techniques to increase revenue, gain business exposure, reach target customers, or help solve problems. His company has two small subsidiaries: Advanced Programming Concepts (a software/tech company) and Advanced Publishing Concepts (an author-services company). Scott was also the original owner of an award-winning restaurant that he operated for over a decade in downtown Roseville. He sold the restaurant in February 2016.

Scott served as a Senior Examiner at the California Awards for Performance Excellence (CAPE), which is the California version of the national Malcolm Baldridge Quality Awards program. He led teams that evaluated the state’s top performing corporations, hospitals, schools, civic governments, and even military programs for prestigious awards. He believes that this unique experience provided him with a fresh perspective of looking at complex organizations and has since helped shape his business perspectives.

Scott Alvord’s volunteer service to the community has been widespread:

Scott is a retired gymnast and high school sports coach. He is a man of faith who enjoys teaching, writing, his family, humor, and cookie dough ice cream. He believes he is here to serve and he invites you to contact him at his home phone number if you’d like to discuss any concerns regarding our city.